ali-joe

3, 2, 1.

2012-01-12T18:15:00.003+08:00

as i grow older, i realise that i'm like becoming more forgetful. i can't even remember what i did last weekend and thats like merely 4 days ago.

this blog shall be the photo album i flip (or scroll) that documents this journey we call life.

ready,
set,
let's go!!

xoxo
ALIJOE

2012

2012-01-01T00:26:00.002+08:00

to look fierce
to live fabulous
to be awesome

no regrets. no compromise.

xoxo
ali-joe

hello monday

2011-05-23T00:08:00.004+08:00

where does time fly to?

it seems like only last week that i attended some lecture in SIM.

yes, i'm still mentally stucked in uni. like after NS everything seems to be moving at turbo speed while i'm still doing 60km/h.

i cant catch up, so time feels like its flashing by.

worrying huh?

everything is starting to feel repetitive and mundane.

do you have that feeling too?

like everyone is moving and you're just standing still. everyday feels just like yesterday. like the only thing you got to look forward to is the weekends. and when it comes, saturday is just a stark reminder that monday comes in 48hours.

then, what else is there?

i donno man. when i was younger i looked forward to working and being able to shop without contraints. it has come to that point, but there's nothing to buy except for another work shirt in a different color.

i guess this is what it feels to be a working adult.

or maybe its just the monday blues talking.

xx

Sundays

2011-05-15T13:07:00.003+08:00

remember to load up on fruits daily!!

damn random, i know.

that's all. take care. enjoy your weekends, or what's left of it. bleah.

oh got public holiday on tuesday, vesak day, so next week shouldnt be that bad i guess. short work week.

dont you all just hate sundays?

well, i do.

its like you're happy you get to wake up late, and you're happy that you dont have to work, you can just do whatever you want. sleep non-stop. watch tv. play games. but at the same time, you know that this happiness wont last. cause the next day is monday.

its like going on an awesome overseas holiday for 3d2n. you're only starting to enjoy yourself, you wish like the holiday was a little longer, and you dont want it to end now.

okay okay enough of my little random spiel. you guys go enjoy yourself while i go sulk in the corner.

xx

man down, man down

2011-05-11T21:25:00.005+08:00

the weather recently coupled with my constant cravings for Red Rock Deli chips, can only equal to one major sore throat. i was already starting to feel it yesterday during work, so i bought myself a bottle of those chinese cooling tea. but i guess that didnt help.

woke up this morning to one bad ass sore throat, those like every time i swallow saliva it hurts like hell, and also my head was throbbing. i knew i had to see the doctor and thats what i did today.

on the way to the doctor. dont you just hate it that these clinic have very weird operating hours? like they open at 10am til noon, reopen at 3pm till 5pm, and then reopen from 7-8pm. i mean, why on earth do doctors need a 3 hour lunch and a 2 hour dinner?? are they going for some buffet or something? or maybe since doctors like to say that outside food are unhealthy cause they use alot of salt and msg, so they drive home and make their maids cook healthy dishes for them for lunch and dinner. i think thats probably it.

anyway, didnt really need to wait for that long since there was only one other person at the clinic. read some brochures about sexually transmitted diseases while waiting. a great propaganda for celibacy i tell you. 5 mins consultation with the doctor and i'm done.

spent the entire afternoon sleeping. awesome i tell you!! but i still feel damn groggy mann!! okay gonna take my medicine and go sleep (again!) now. you all drink lots of water and take care of yourself k!!

xx

collective power of thinking

2011-05-10T13:16:00.003+08:00

isnt it funny how one day its so fucking scorching, like being on the surface of the sun, and the next, the heavens let down a terrential diarrhoea.

i think its the power of collective thinking.

since it's been so god damn hot the past few day, a large collective amount of people have been hoping for rain. and this collective want creates a kind of power able to induce rain.

or from a religious point of view, its like imagine 1 million people praying together for rain and god makes it rain.

same concept. i call it the collective power of thinking.

okay i should stop reading science fiction novels and get back to reality.

xx

burn baby burn

2011-05-09T16:56:00.002+08:00

ohmaigodddddddddd!!!

have you seen the weather lately??

scorching i tell you!!!! scorching!!!!!!! i'm gonna make it a point to stop by watsons later to buy a BIG bottle of sunblock.

who needs to go to the beach for a tan when i can just stand next to my office window turn 3 shades darker.

xx

square one

2011-05-08T20:49:00.002+08:00

don't you just love my new blog look? the colors are just awesome!

okay enough of self praising my own choices of colors. haha! i guess all this means i'm back?

right?

xx

hello spam

2011-04-24T09:38:00.003+08:00

who are all this random people on my comment board?

anyways,

as accessible as tumblr is, the only things i've been posting much is of food i eat. and everytime i visit my tumblr, it becomes a constant reminder of how much i eat.

which if you've seen, is ALOT.

how depressing.

moving on

2011-03-27T13:31:00.001+08:00

if you still love me, follow me at VN.

superficial 9 to 5

2011-03-08T00:12:00.003+08:00

sometimes i feel the industry that i'm in is kinda superficial. people judge you by your dressing, the label on your bag, your hairstyle and the people you know.

i guess this is life. secretly, i enjoy the whole superficiality. the air kisses and the 'oh mahhh godddd!!' but as long as at the end of the day i get to go home to reality, slip into my uniqlos and listen to ella fitzgerald as i flip thru 8days, i'm perfectly okay with it.

ugly duckling

2011-03-05T13:07:00.002+08:00

i love the fact that my job provides me access to events, parties and launches. but when you're in a room with all these celebrities, popular bloggers and many beautiful people from the creative industries, half of the time i'm secretly gawking and the other half i'm just feeling really self conscious.

its like a trigger to the floodgates of insecurities.

and i am highly critical of myself. like..

i should have worn something nicer!!

ohmaigodd my hair looks damn terrible!!!

of all times for me to have a pimple!!!

fuck i bet i look like a beach whale when they took my photo!!!

oh wells.

unwind

2011-03-01T22:45:00.003+08:00

work has been a little taxing lately.

thank god for ice milo, 8 days, air con and ella fitzgerald on speaker. try it. if only i had some warm scones and raspberry jam.

where's wally?

2011-02-26T14:11:00.002+08:00

everything happens for a reason. there can be no effect with no cause and vice versa. the concept of duality suggest everything comes in pairs. if there is a yes, there is a no. if there are positives, there are negatives. if there is small, there is big. if there is me, then there is you.

hope

2011-02-24T09:48:00.002+08:00

hope is something intangible. you can't see it. you can't touch it. but hope is what everyone needs to continue when there's nothing else to look forward to.

if only it was that simple

2011-02-15T14:52:00.004+08:00

people lie,
people cheat,
people hurt you,
people make you sad.

shoes don't.

zzz zz zzz

2011-02-13T15:22:00.003+08:00

do you believe in dreams?

mine's got me really confused.

if only dreams continue the next night when you go to bed so that you can know what happens next.

LL

2011-02-12T11:18:00.001+08:00

at the stroke of midnight, let's leave it all behind and walk away to where ever our feet will take us.

LL

2011-02-09T23:28:00.002+08:00

dance with me under the light of the moon and hold my hands until dawn.

nothing last forever

2011-02-06T11:40:00.003+08:00

the weather has been really awesome lately. sunny skies and breezy afternoons. so perfect for a grande non fat caramel macchiato and just chillaxing the afternoon away.

the only damper is that work starts tomorrow.

is today SUNday?

2011-02-04T11:23:00.003+08:00

after the major neverending downpour and the gusto winds, today's weather just seems perfect. sunny with gentle breezes. okay wait. i'm typing this as at 11am and just in case its raining elephants and giraffe and you're reading this at 5pm or smthing, then maybe this post isnt appropriate.

anyway, perfect weather to be out doing nothing. sipping starbucks and watching the world go by. perfecto.

red rabbits

2011-02-03T12:10:00.003+08:00

some associate it with danger and the devil, a color for blood, a representation of fire and passion but to the billions of Chinese worldwide, red symbolizes good luck.

but though modernisation, we face a customs and traditions erosion. lost is heritage.

if donning a full-on chinoiserie ensemble is a tad too overzealous for you, tiny details like mandarin collars or jade earrings would be more appropriate to accentuate your sino-pride.

6 minutes

2011-02-01T21:49:00.003+08:00

take 6 minutes to listen to the song playing on my blog.

switch off the lights and shut the door. now, close your eyes. imagine that your are drifting in silent space surrounded by a galaxy of stars. the absence of gravity transforms you into a bubble slowly floating away nonchalantly. immerse yourself into total ecstasy.

ready, set, dance.

the mourning of the heavens

2011-01-31T23:27:00.003+08:00

it is like the clouds could no longer hold back. the infliction of torment it could no longer withstand. opening of floodgates unleashing all anguish and woe. let it fall and wash away all tribulations.

in darkness i exist

2011-01-30T19:52:00.004+08:00

rivers of water flow from my eyes down to my chin as i hold in my hands shattered pieces of my sanity. adorning a veil of invisibility, i shall tread the rest of the journey searching for a myth.

gonna lock it and throw away the key.

2011-01-22T23:56:00.003+08:00

FML
FML
FML

silly of me. oh how silly can you be ali.

silly silly me.

should have known better.

:(

recluse

2011-01-22T13:12:00.002+08:00

there are days when i feel like wearing my shades all day long, sit by a very quiet starbucks, flip british vogue and not talk to anyone, okay except to the starbucks guy for my grande non fat caramel machiatto.

there are days when i feel like not twittering, not facebooking and not blogging.

i having wayyyy too much of these kind of days.

and i'm sercretly lovin it.

wet wet wet

2011-01-11T17:39:00.002+08:00

is it me or has it been damn damn damnnnnnnn cold lately? every single day rain. my office feels like a gigantic igloo. but i guess it gives me a good reason to wear layers and different different outerwear to work.

oh wells, since i still can't upload any pictures i shall tell u all another joke to make up for it. hahaha!

which insect is the holiest?
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the praying mantis.

geddit? geddit??

LOL

xoxo
alijoe

i know, i know.

2011-01-10T17:09:00.002+08:00

i know i havent been blogging for a bit. it's not really i dont wanna blog but then the site that i use to edit my photos is kinda giving me problems. so yeah.

i cant possibly upload photos that are not edited right?! i dont look fucking gorgeous on my blog because of great genes and or great lighting. its purely editing. without editing i look horendous.

since i'm so thoughtful, not wanting to spoil your appetite by uploading my non edited photos, lets all pray that the god damn website is back up and running yeah!

so for now, i shall make it up by telling you all a joke.

'the only way i'm gonna lose 10 pounds is if i went to London to shop!'

geddit? geddit?

recollections and resolutions

2011-01-02T13:03:00.002+08:00

i suggest you make a nice hot cup of tea before you read this post because it's gonna be major lengthy and ultra wordy.

ready? set? lets go!

2010 has been a really interesting year for me. the most major thing this year was my transition from a student, to an unemployed bummer and finally to a working adult. i finally got to wear my academic regalia (aka graduation gown) and officially became a bachelor's degree graduate. i met many awesome people at work who i now consider friends. i finally stopped getting allowance from my parents and earned my own income instead. i got to see mariah carey live in concert and very up close. i got a new camera, Samsung PL150, the one with front and back lcd screens.

i'm sure there's many many other great events in 2010 but since i've got the memory of a goldfish, this is all i can think of for the time being. and for the rest of it, i guess its a little too personal to publicize. hahah!

you know, overall 2010 wasn't all that bad. i mean sure there were some moments were i didnt feel like a sparkly diamond ring on a sunny day but you live, you learn and you move on. lucky for me, i've got selective memory. hahaha!

the future is always scary to me because it filled with so much uncertainty. if only we knew what's gonna happen next, maybe then we can plan and our life will turn out better. but then if life went according to plan, wouldn't it be a tad boring?

here's the part where i come out with resolutions for 2011. to me resolutions arises from the result of accessing unhappiness in 2010. you figure out what you are not happy with, and you create objectives to change yourself to your desired perception of yourself.

1) firstly, i think i'm too damn nice to the point of maybe i'm too much of a people pleaser. i'm nice to like literally everybody, i guess i'm just a naturally nice guy but like what the saying goes 'nice guys finish last'. when you're always so damn nice to people, everybody tends to take you for granted and walk all over you. well, i've had it. so please roll out the red carpet and welcome back the acidly sarcastic megabitch.

2) my second resolution is like a carry forward from the one last year, to dress fierce. ignore the naysayers with their snide comments and its time to embrace individuality.

3) eat and live healthier. cut down on fast food and all the excessive snacking on junk food. oh and sleep early is i guess part of a healthy lifestyle too.

4) to be more sociable. contrary to popular believe, i'm actually no social butterfly. i think i blogged about this before. i tend to clam up when meeting new people or people i barely know. i guess i find it awkward. so my resolution for 2011 is to set my inhibitions aside and socialize like a socialite. in short, emulate Paris Hilton.

5) relax and enjoy the simple pleasures of life. it isn't all about the shopping sprees and the partying. throw a picnic with some friends, visit museums and exhibitions, cycle along east coast park, explore places and take pictures with my holga. 2010 zoomed right by, the least i could do is to not rush through 2011 and instead take a deep breathe and enjoy its little moments.

well, so i guess thats it then for the resolutions of 2011. just 5 simple targets to hit to better myself. so now begins the hard part, making sure i fulfill these resolutions religiously. i sure hope so.

to all my sexy and cute readers, i wish you a Happy New Year and i hope that 2011 will be even better for you than 2010!!

xoxo
alijoe

1-1-11

2011-01-01T23:55:00.002+08:00

i'm like wayyy to tired to blog about the recollections of 2010 now so i'll probably do that tomorrow. for now, here's wishing you health and happiness for 2011!

work in progress

2010-12-30T06:00:00.000+08:00

as the curtains of 2010 are almost finally drawing to a close, i cant help but feel a tinge of nostalgia.

in 2009, i had 3 resolutions for 2010.

1) to eat and live healthy

2) to dress fiercely

3) to appreciate the present

if you wanna read more about that blog entry, you can click HERE.

looking back (and being super lenient about it), i think i have probably accomplish 2 out of 3 of my resolutions.

apart from the occasional snacking when craving strikes, i do believe that i've started to adopt a healthier approach to eating. back then Mr Old Chang Kee was my soulmate but now i avoid it like the sweaty construction worker. now, i tend to choose soupy dishes and i eat my vegetables as well. also, i guess my twice weekly sessions on the treadmill does contribute to the part on living healthy.

secondly, the sad thing about the working world is that it restricts your creativity to dress fiercely. the conformity stifles individuality to the point that you just give up. oh wells.

and lastly, appreciating the present moment. a lot of people see me as this happy go lucky guy. i think happiness comes when you dont dwell on negativity and instead focus your energy on the positive side of everything. appreciating that every bad moment is a learning experience and that every good moment is a reason to be thankful, lightens you. just remember, you've got to remove the baggage and lighten the load to make the journey easier. and i believe i've done my best to do so.

i guess 2 out of 3 resolutions is not bad. none of us are perfect, we're all just work in progress.

xoxo,
alijoe

do something

2010-12-29T06:00:00.003+08:00

work can get really tiresome at times. that's why it's great to have some after work activities to do. gives you something to look forward to. some people swears by retail therapy, other probably do yoga or go for drinks.

for me, i prefer to meet up with a bunch of my friends for dinner and chit chat over ice cream later. yes, its true my after work activity leads to a larger waistline but it definitely beats dragging yourself home just to catch some 9pm drama on tv.

so go ahead and make some plans, its mid week wednesday anyway. lets make the last few days of 2010 a great one!

xoxo
alijoe

scooter ride

2010-12-28T06:00:00.000+08:00

everyone looks forward to xmas but i don't. yes, the fact that you receive tonnes of presents is definitely amazing but on the other hand, the reciprocation process is the difficult part. picking out presents for other people always gives me a headache.

gift giving aside, that't not exactly why i hate xmas. the real reason here is that xmas is a stark reminder that you've only got 6 more days left till the year ends.

december 31st is a day when i bring out my imaginary report card, assess the current year's accomplishment of resolutions (which is always depressing) and plot new resolutions for the following year.

this year felt like i was riding on a scooter in the middle of an F1 race. wasn't chinese new year a few weeks ago???

xoxo,
alijoe

the joy of giving

2010-12-27T06:00:00.001+08:00

apparently, santa got my next door neighbor a karaoke set. i mean it would be great if i lived next to Whitney Houston or Celine Dion, but when tone deaf people decide to do their own renditions of these divas' songs, the least they could do is to provide us with ear plugs. it is the season of giving after all.

oh, and if i hear 'My Heart Will Go On' one more time, i doubt my own heart will go on anymore.

save me. please.

xoxo,
alijoe

bowties are sexy.

2010-12-26T08:00:00.002+08:00

i'm not a really facebook person. i dont upload much photos and i dont really post alot of status updates. but one thing i do like to do is to browse photos uploaded by my friends. i especially love those photos taken of trips abroad. but then one of my favourite things to do when i'm browsing through all these photos is to untag all the unglam photos of me. hahahaha!!

i know you do it too, so dont judge me! :P

anyway, i found this photo of me taken during the Bata Flasgship Fashion Show in someone's random album.

everybody said i looked like a waiter with my bowtie on. but i think it nice whattttttt!!

xoxo,
alijoe

happy holidays

2010-12-25T01:39:00.000+08:00

maybe

2010-12-25T00:05:00.001+08:00

maybe i miss it too damn much to leave it all behind.

final act

2010-08-30T00:43:00.002+08:00

it's sad how nobody cares anymore. and to that, i bid farewell.

alijoe

so random

2010-08-27T22:15:00.002+08:00

i feel like changing my blog layout. like maybe change that act cool picture at the top. i know if i were to ask for suggestions on what to do, nobody would actually reply me. haha! so i think i'll just go with my mood. see how la..

been kinda busy this week especially with my graduation and all but then that story's for another post. have you guys realised how fast this year flew past, its already august and less than a week it'd be september. next thing you know, it'd be christmas already, then 2011. wah its moving too fast! i feel like i'm standing still as the whole world zooms past me.

i know my topics today a little bit random right. hahaha! since we're being random, lets talk about YOG. i like the opening ceremony. they had a really cool stage where they had fountains and some parts look like people were running on water. and i like the fact that the olympic flame was in some lighthouse thingy. very cool indeed! but sadly, i was very much disappointed by the closing ceremony. i was expecting some grand event but i ended watching something that felt like a Singapore Idol concert by those people who didn't even make it to top 3.

and you know what!!! i was like so looking forward to that OH YEAH OH YEAH song for YOG and they didnt even play it once!!! i admit the song is like damn corny la, so corny that its verging on retarded but then, its SO DAMN CATCHY can!!! you tell me who donno the chorus of this song.

OH YEAH OH YEAH OH YEAH HEY!!!

i bet most people even know to exact hand movements to it lor!!! i dont understand why we singaporeans are so embarassed by the song. you look at the world cup and u got shakira singing WAKA WAKA EH EH. i mean granted the fact her dance was more sexier and didnt look like they copied it from street fighter but still. it was catchy as hell and everybody enjoyed it. why not our own local one?

double standards much?

anyway, i just wanna say that i'm proud of our local youth athletes. i dont care that we didnt get a single gold. we did get like a gazillion bronze and 1 silver medal by rainer ng for swimming. but what's the most important thing to me is that these people are true blue singaporeans. not some commodity purchased to win medals.

anyway before i start blabbing away, let just end this post abruptly here. now, since i know most people like to just browse thru fotos when they visit blogs, i shall include some random ones from the past few weeks.

i'm like such a crowd pleaser. *roll eyes*

cousin's wedding at fort canning. i was trying to be artistic but ended up EPIC FAIL.

indonesian food with my army bunkmates. and we caught that movie Inception after that. why is everybody saying this movie is like damn awesome. the show storyline was very simple, there was simply too much dialogue and it was boring as hell. what a waste of my time. i should just stick to my slasher movies.

tengku, my army friend's wedding. its like everyone is getting married ar?

ashley's birthday at Loof. i think that place is becoming like our usual hangout after work already. somebody just make me member already!?!?!

glutton's bay with kath and maddie. food was awesome much. but then we wanted sambal stingray but the queue was like so damnnnnnnn long!!! i want to go lau pa sat next!!!

bunny slippers at work. those are not my feet ar!!! and i do not wear tights la omg!

okay thats all for my very random update!

stay cute and sexy always!
alijoe

wouldn't it?

2010-08-24T00:12:00.003+08:00

i admit i'm not really a big facebook user. i dont play games on it, i almost never do status updates and i dont upload EVERY SINGLE PHOTO i take. but there is still 1 thing i like to do on facebook. i like to look at all the photos my friends upload. my favorites are the ones which they take on holiday trips.

when i was young i had a really terrible case of motion sickness so i didnt really get to travel much. but my father got to travel extensively then. and every time when he returns, i look forward to flipping through a whole photo album filled with pictures. i'd be like this little wide eye kid mesmerised by every single photo i see. and the best part would be all the different souveniers he brought from places that i could only see through photographs.

clicking through photo albums of friends' holiday trips only makes me feel like packing my bags and taking a cab to the airport right now and buying a one way ticket to wherever the next flight goes to. hopefully its europe cause i just saw some awesome photos of my friend's trip there.

read a book on a long train ride. take photos while exploring the country side on a bicycle.

maybe. and just maybe, leave everything behind, approach a small patisserie and beg them to take me in as an apprentice baker and start life all over again.

wouldnt that be just awesome?

alijoe

impossible

2010-08-16T23:05:00.002+08:00

your kisses felt like raindrops in summer
your hugs felt like a warm blanket in winter
your carress felt like a gentle breeze in the spring
and your whispers calming like the weather in autumn

but my love is like the seasons, never remaining, always changing.

i'm impossible like that.

will somebody come and break down these walls i've built.

hermit

2010-08-15T23:22:00.003+08:00

there are days where all you wanna do is party till 4am in the morning. where the last thing you remember is like lying down on the pavements outside zouk.

and then there are days like this, where all you wanna do is curl up on your bed, red a good book, and just not go out. don't wanna meet anyone, dont wanna talk to anyone on msn.

it's just a little mood swing i guess. i'll be back to my old perky self before you know it.

alijoe

do good unto others and others will do good unto you

2010-08-10T22:48:00.005+08:00

and so begins the fasting month.

a common misconception amongst many people is that fasting is purely about not eating or drinking because god says so. the truth in fact, is far wider an explanation.

fasting is about abstaining from desires. they're many things that fasting includes, like no alcohol, no gambling, no food & drink, no sex... well you get the drift, basically normal human desires. it teaches you discipline as well as appreciation, because only when something is taken away from you will you realise how much you take things for granted.

furthermore, the fasting month encourages you to do good and practice regular charity. no man who gives charity will land himself to become poor and destitute.

i'm not trying to preach religion here but what i'm merely trying to say is that maybe all of us need to practice a little bit of 'fasting'. abstain from our vices, appreciate what we have and be nice to others.

(^_^)V
alijoe

this is home truly

2010-08-09T22:20:00.002+08:00

i wanted to blog today. i already uploaded all the photos, was about to edit them but i decided to catch the national day parade instead.

this year's national day parade was the same like every other but then i make it a point to watch it every year with my family. i love especially the march in section where you have all the different contingents marching in with pride. it just looks really cool. but i notice something off this year. every year, the president would like walk and inspect the troops. he would stop randomly at some guy and chit chat about god knows what, maybe about what the soldier felt regarding Lindsay Lohan mild jail sentence perhaps, but somehow this year i guess he just wasnt in a chit chat mood. he just stood on the back of a jeep and wave. boring la like that!! haha!

i know a lot of people think watching the national day parade is like lame but then i donno why i kinda like it. that's like once a year for like 2 hours i feel all patriotic. i sing along to the songs and even sing the national anthem. you know, seeing all the people at the Padang this year singing along gives me this heart warming feeling. especially when Sezairi sang We Will Get There and Kit Chan sang Home. i got goosebumps!!!

you know what, i secretly am proud to be a singaporean! unless of course, there's a fucking huge influx of foreigners in the near future, then thank god my parents have properties overseas :)

anyhow,
have a happy national day everyone!

back work tmr. bleah!

(^_^)V
alijoe

back to reality

2010-08-01T23:47:00.005+08:00

i told you i'd survive didnt i!

when i came to know of my reservist, i was really dreading it. the day before my reservist, i was seriously feeling damn fucked up having to pack all my stuff. and at 6.15am the next day while i was waiting for a cab to my camp, i was DAMN depressed.

2 weeks of shit again. what a waste of time. i rather be at work.

and now it's over.

to a certain extent, i kinda miss it. HAHAHAHA!!! i know!! sick right!!

bu seriously, it wasnt as bad as i expected it to be. generally it was great fun. met up with old friends, caught up on each others life. just pure random chit chat. talk cock. act retarded. play card games. complained about the food. complained about the sun, the rain, everything. catch up on my reading. disturb people.

i mean of course there were army stuff to do, but i'm only mentioning HAPPY moments here.

in the end, there were some parts that were not so happy but that didnt matter cause the happy times overshadowed them. its like going to a bad restaurant with your friends. you complain about the food, the service and the price, but in the end you make do with it cause what matters is that you had great company.

btw, i wasnt paid for writing this.

(^_^)V
alijoe

quoting gloria gaynor

2010-07-24T18:55:00.002+08:00

i survived one week. one more week to go.

you know what, it wasnt really as bad as i expected it to be. i got to catch up with people whom i spent close to 2 years with and only get to meet once a year now. next week will be tougher with a major event happening but hey, i'll survive.

gloria gaynor sang it and now i will repeat it, altogether now, 'i will survive! i will survive! yeah! yeah!'

(^_^)V
alijoe

soldier

2010-07-18T23:33:00.002+08:00

will be gone for 2weeks.

i do hope camo creams now are mosturising and also contain sunblock. i mean, if they can make BB creams in 3 different shades, why can they make something similar in black and green.

(^_^)V
alijoe

hell hath no fury

2010-07-13T23:44:00.003+08:00

oh you childish little boy. oh how sad and pathetic can you be.
run to mummy, run to daddy. throw your little tantrums.
let's see if i care.

remember this motherfucker, there can only be one queen and i own that throne.

know your role peasant!

_|_
alijoe

lazy sundays

2010-07-11T23:10:00.003+08:00

this week was like a major hectic week for me. i'm like so busy at work that i actually stayed back till like 1030pm. which was why this weekend, i made sure i did absolutely nothing. all i wanted to do was just to nua at home. just watch tv, lie on my bed and read magazines, catch up on online shows that i've missed. i didnt even want to go shop. the thought of the weekend crowd at town was enough to make me nauseous.

i hope you had a great weekend! oh and if you didnt, there's always next weekend to look forward to!

so here was my week in photographs!

take care loves!

(^_^)V
alijoe

the journey

2010-07-04T21:08:00.002+08:00

life is a journey. each day is different no matter how routine your life can be. you meet new people, you learn new things. make the most of it. don't fret, don't complain. take it all in one at a time. challenges are but opportunities to expand.

everything happens for a reason. embrace change and everything will fall into place.

don't be afraid. come hold my hand and we'll take this journey together.

alijoe

no weapons formed against me shall prosper

2010-06-27T23:00:00.004+08:00

sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between a genuine and a counterfeit Louis Vuitton. you gotta observe it real closely before making conclusions.

so dont try to sell me no premium grade fake shit cause i can tell.

and darling, you have no idea yet what a MEGA BITCH i can be.

alijoe

please stand behind the yellow line

2010-06-20T16:06:00.005+08:00

i take the train to work everyday.

just for the record, i prefer taking the train over buses anytime. i like the fact that it's fast and efficient. i mean, if you take the bus, sometimes you never know what time the bus is coming and then, if you factor in random traffic situations like accidents and jams, you can't really be certain what time you'll reach your destination. trains on the other hand, arrive on the average of every 5minutes and the best thing about it is that i dont have to worry about traffic jams delaying my journey. if they say you'll reach city hall in 18mins, they really mean it. unless of course some motherfucker comes along and decide to commit suicide on the train tracks. then, that's like bo pian.

so once you start taking the train every single day, you'll start to notice the idiosyncrasies of different commuters. there are people who like to sleep very unglamorously on trains and then there are those who play with iphones. for me, i plug in my ipod and i daydream about being brandon flowers, the frontman of The Killers, and performing to a sold out concert.

one odd thing, i've been noticing is that ever since they introduced the priority seat, you know the one for the old or the pregnant, everybody avoids it the seats like the plague.

like lets say, the elderly woman got up to alight at her stop, the seat is left empty. nobody wants to seat there. a train packed to the brim and there's one empty seat and everyone's just ignoring it.

i personally find it annoying. just seat la damnit! you waiting for some elderly women to elbow through the crowds of people just to go there sit meh??

ohh, and one more thing. people who give up their seat to kids annoy me. what logical reason is there that says a 7yr old girl deserves the seat more than a 27yr old female wearing high heels and who spent the past 7hours serving unreasonable customers at Mango. i'd say give the freaking seat to the the woman better right?? do kids get tired more easily or smthing? all the kids i see on the trains have like unlimited energy. they can scream and swing on the poles while the parents just sit there and smile. funny meh?! fucking disrupting my daydreaming right!

anyway,

that's like just a couple of retarded things i notice on the train. there's more la but by the time i finish typing everything, its be a 3 part novel with 24 chapters each. JRR Tolkien also paisey.

anyway anyway,

here's some random photos i took throughout the week. i'm too damn busy (and lazy) to do 3-4 post a week, so i'll just upload the whole chunk and lump them all at the end of this entry.

have a great week ahead yeah!

(^_^)V
ALIJOE

fear not

2010-06-13T20:44:00.003+08:00

this blog is not dead. i've just been really busy. every time i come home from work, all i wanna do is just take a shower and go to sleep. sometimes i even fall asleep while watching tv. pathetic right?! i know!

the only time where i get to really sit down and blog is probably over the weekend. i know my sporadic random blogging pattern is causing most of my regular readers to satisfy their bimbotic blog reads elsewhere. but, what to do. at least i got like 5 people still reading this, so i guess its okay. sad.

anyway,

i want to talk about fear.

fear of the unknown.

i'm not talking about ghost or werewolves, oh taylor lautner *drools*. i'm talking about smthing more relatable. like fear of uncertainty. like simple stuff can cause fear. like for example, if you're invited to a birthday party and the dress theme is Moulin Rouge. then you decide not to follow the dress theme because you fear that if you did and when you reach there seeing that only you were gungho enough to dress up like a 1940's prostitute, then it would cause you major embarrassment.

well, you know, simple fears like this. fear that deters you. another example would be like lets say you go to a buffet and there's all this awesome food but then you dont dare to pig out because you're afraid people might look at you and think you're a glutton.

these are the kinds of fear that prevents you from being yourself, achieving your absolute best.

call it worry, anxiety or just fear of uncertainty. it's all the same thing.

now, i shall let you in on a little secret. before i started work, i had this little fear that work would suck really bad. that everyone would be so darn political and hate me. that i'd spent lunch eating sandwiches alone at my desk. and that my boss would be like miranda preisley from Devil Wears Prada.

just random fears of uncertainty. not knowing what the future holds. sometimes the only way to overcome such fears is just by going through it. you've got to kill the cow to make the burger.

sometimes it turns out for the better and sometimes not. you learn and you move on. luckily for me, everything's been going great so far. my colleagues are all awesome and i've got a bunch of friends that i can hang out with and lunch with. people who i can joke with, laugh with and who make my hours at work fly by.

check out these awesome pic's i took over the week.

me with audrey leong, who constantly likes to make fun of me and then laugh at me for no apparent reason. lol!

it was our merchandising manager's birthday so the whole department decided to have a damn yummy lunch at Aroy Thai.

the food was damn good la! and their thai milk tea was just pure awesome!

when we got back to the office, we surprised her with a yummy birthday cake.

and she generously treated us all to ice cream and Spinelli's!!! wootS!!!

that night, a bunch of decided to hang out after work at Loof. it's nice to just unwind after work over drinks and random chit chat.

(^_^)

alijoe

bus ride

2010-06-07T23:10:00.003+08:00

it's been a while since i took the bus. personally, i'm not a huge fan of taking bus rides. they kinda make me feel a little nauseous. but today, somehow i decided to take the bus home.

so damn therapeutic la omg!

you guys should try it. a nice quiet journey home at night. plug in your ipod to some awesome music. i like to listen to Jewel on long bus rides. then just sit there and stare out of the window. just stare. just look at all your surrounding, the street lights, the trees. just watch everything pass by. think about nothing else.

just take your time and appreciate your surroundings. daydream. stone. reflect. just leave everything behind and get lost staring out of the window.

now take a deep breath. press the bell. then alight.

okay. back to reality.

alijoe

i'm still here

2010-05-29T23:24:00.002+08:00

just been a little busy, that's all.

alijoe

sand

2010-05-29T00:07:00.003+08:00

how i wish i could escape to a deserted island,
with a glass of mojito that never empties,
watch clouds float in the sky,
just liethere,
by myself.

forever is fiction

2010-05-27T23:48:00.002+08:00

your warm caress,
your soothing embrace,
your fleeting presence,
my summer wind.

alijoe

dear kun kun

2010-05-23T22:36:00.002+08:00

happy birthday maddie!!

dinner with POEPS at Sushi Tei followed by Shrek at the cinemas later on. nice simple lovely night.

alijoe

hurdle

2010-05-19T06:51:00.004+08:00

life is like one of those hurdle races you watch during the olympics. its never really a breezy stroll, instead, you constantly have to jump over hurdles to get to the end.

that's just how it is. i mean, if life faces you with a hurdle, you dont stand there and cry, you dont wait there for the hurdle to dissapear, you just have to jump.

you might trip on the first hurdle or you might procrastinate and be a little slow to jump over the second hurdle. but find solace in the fact that those earlier hurdle makes it easier to jump over the next few hurdles.

so let's put on our most FIERCE pair of shoes and i'll see you along the way.

eh, you get what i mean right?

alijoe

cantabe, worse than a wannabe

2010-05-15T11:23:00.003+08:00

fashionistas are generally not fat people. fat people who thinks they're fashionistas are just delusional people in denial.

time to go on a diet ali joe. size L is for Losers.

alijoe

dreamland

2010-05-12T22:23:00.002+08:00

i guess everybody have dreams. i'm not talking about aspirations but about the stuff you dream about at night. sometimes we remember them, sometimes we dont.

you know what, i get really weird dreams.

just last night, i dreamt that i was painting my bedroom walls blue. more like light blue, slightly towards tiffany blue. that was it. i dont remember anything else accept painting my walls blue.

some people say, dreams have meaning.

i sure as hell would love to know what that dream was suppose to mean!

alijoe

broken

2010-05-10T06:31:00.003+08:00

honestly, i'm not a big fan of local music. most of the stuff churned out here sounds like generic crap. now, before i get legions of local music supporters lambasting me for treason, i think i better explain myself.

in general, music from singapore either sounds like cheap remakes of R&B songs or corny National Day sounding songs. well, i do admit there are some local bands, mostly indie, that do have potential. but here, i'm talking about the music scene in general. basically stuff i see on tv and hear on the radio.

i mean i dont see why i should support local music just because i'm local. that's just inane. i support whatever music that's good be it local or not. and so far i havent had to chance to feel excited about a locally produced song.

until now.

i was listening to Class 95 on the the weekends when i heard this nice song on the radio and i thought it was from James Morrison until i heard the DJ mentioning the name on the artist.

Sezairi Sezali.

i was like 'wow!'. finally, a singapore idol winner that actually has a nice song. something that actually sounds current and relevant in the music industry right now. and don't you just love the tone of his voice?

i've embedded the video of his song on my blog's sidebar. so do give it a listen and tell me what you think alright.

alijoe

crazy shit

2010-05-08T10:26:00.003+08:00

in singapore, there are night markets set up during festive periods like Chinese New Year and Hari Raya. these night markets usually carry festive goodies, decorations and clothes special to the occasion. every night thousands of people throng these night markets to soak in the festive atmosphere while shopping up a storm. and on the last night of the night markets which is the night before the festival, stall owners at these places will slash their prices to clear stock and shoppers come out in full force to take advantage of these price reductions as well as do their last minute shopping.

now, you can just imagine how crowded it would be on the last night of the bazaar. ok, now imagine it 5 times more crowded.

and that was how fucking crowded zouk was last night!!!

fucking hell! at times it felt so stuffy like i couldnt breathe. it was so damn pack that you couldnt possibly dance and even if u did try to dance, all you'd do is jostle the people around you. and and and, to the assholes who kept trying to squeeze infront, its already crowded DAMNIT, there's no where else to go!! its already so fucking crowded and you and your whole lot of far east plaza friends are trying to push through everyone to find a space for all 7 of you to dance at the front of the dance floor is just fucking stupid.

oh and dont even get me started with girls having big hair, i have no idea how many different girls hair was brushing against my face and some that even went into my mouth. bloody hell!

steve aoki man, i really like your stuff but you were shit boring last night. the local DJ who spun before you arrived dished out way better music. i waited more than 2 hours for you man and it felt like such a letdown. i do still think your hair is awesome though!

and to zouk, what a dissapointment. fucking dissapointed with you. i thought i could have at least 1 club in singapore that i could always know i will have a damn awesome night at, but unfortunately you missed the mark. crowd control was beyond ridiculous. i got so fucking annoyed and it took me close to 30minutes to squeeze my way out.

you know what? i seriously dont understand how they can close down Mustafa for being overcrowded and not zouk.

stupid.

alijoe

confusion

2010-05-05T06:13:00.002+08:00

being catapulted into a world with a frenzy of responsibilities, can be a little daunting. its almost like treading the Amazon without a map nor a compass, all you feel is lost and a sense of helplessness. i guess, its just the normal progression of things but i just hate this feeling. when you feel lost and confused, everything feels like a brand new surprise. and you guys know how much i hate surprises. its like i have this weird obsession with everything having to be perfect and according to plan.

oh well, adapting to something new is never easy. time to work harder ali joe.

but hey, even if work gets a little overwhelming, i find solace in the fact that i've got an awesome bunch of colleagues to make it all better. since half of my department just recently flew off for a trade show overseas, the rest of us decided to have lunch at this finger-licking-good chicken rice place at seah street.

its my first time there and i cant exactly remember the name of the shop, but the chicken rice was damn yummy lah. but like omg, the walk there from my office under the sweltering torment of the sun was pure torture. torture i tell you, torture!!

alijoe

hello world

2010-05-02T17:37:00.003+08:00

the only constant in life is change and the sooner you begin to embrace it, the happier you will become. however, the result of change is uncertain. you never really know whether the change is for the better or worse. but remember this, change is inevitable. so in simpler words, suck it up and make the best of it.

if i describe my life as a book, then now would be the beginning of a new chapter. welcome to the corporate world. it's a little scary for little old me but i'll put on my brave face and conquer it like a Zara sale.

it's been a great 4 months or so bumming around after i ended university. i guess i'm probably gonna miss it. the shopping in the weekday afternoons, the waking up at 2pm everyday, the numerous meeting up with friends for dinner or simply to hangout, the endless partying till 3am in the morning and the inability to tell what day it is cause everyday feels like a saturday.

it was all great fun while it lasted!

hopefully, the new chapter of my life will be as fun or better yet, even more fun with all the lovely people currently in my life and plus the new awesome people i'll meet.

so, let's cheers to the beautiful life, la bella vita!

alijoe

you snooze, you lose

2010-04-26T00:09:00.005+08:00

i'm not dead. just a little occupied.

oh, and dear zirca, you suck. whoever was manning the consoles on friday night kept putting a 10 second song on loop throughout. like that, my 4yr old cousin also can be a DJ. i had more fun singing to songs on my ipod in the car later. seriously you guys! and what was it with all the ang mohs? omg, it felt like i was clubbing in finland damnit.

oh and one more thing, that smoke you keep blowing out onto the dancefloor, was sure as hell damn effective, i did not even see one cockroach throughout the night. i did choke and gag a few times on the smell though but hey, am i lucky i'm not a cockroach.

oh wells, that's one more club off the list.

alijoe

to tweet or not to tweet

2010-04-19T16:08:00.001+08:00

i think the reason why i dont blog so often is cause i tweet. and just in case you didnt know, twitter is like this thingy where its somewhat like blogging meets facebook status updates. they give you 140 characters to type something out and people who follow you get to see your updates and reply to what you said.

it's kinda fun if you have lots of friends on it but i guess twitter is not really THAT big in singapore yet or maybe its just my friends are not really TWEETers.

nevertheless, if you are a tweeter and you wanna add me on twitter, HERE's MY LINK..

ALIJOE

just click on that link and you'll get to my page and you can add me from there!!

it'd be like so totally awesome i tell you!!!!

ADD ME NOW!!!!!! (^_^)V

alijoe

mint ice cream sundae

2010-04-16T17:11:00.003+08:00

its been raining like damn heavily lately, especially around the late afternoon. and there's one thing i like to do when its raining. no, it isnt putting on a full white outfit and playing under the rain getting soaking wet. cause white makes me look fat you see.

what i like to do on a nice rainy day is eat a big bowl of mint ice cream sundae. all i do is scoop some mint ice cream into a bowl, get a bottle of hershey's chocolate syrup from my bedside table and pour it over the mint ice cream and sprinkle some rainbow rice on top. its fucking awesome.

i usually eat it by my kitchen window while i watch the rain drench all the clothes that my other neighbours hang out and forget to bring in.

life is awesome.

alijoe

alijoe for president

2010-04-11T14:47:00.002+08:00

groupthink is the cancer to individuality. grouthink happens when everybody in a group thinks similarly and opposes anything else that isnt seen as right by the group. lets say a person in a group has a different perception of something, groupthink makes him feel that he is wrong, therefore having to change his way to follow and be part of his group.

lets use an example.

let's say everybody think's Paris Hilton can't sing and her making an album would be a disaster. thus the whole group thinks that Paris Hilton's album sucks. groupthink comes in when members in the group straight away condemns the album saying it's the worst album ever made, without actually even listening to it first.

so what's my point?

my point is i've uploaded this new music video for my blog on the right and its by paris hilton and i think its awesome. and even if you think it sucks, i shall not succumb to your ideology because that my friend, is groupthink.

alijoe

i also don't know why

2010-04-08T01:24:00.004+08:00

so i was listening to Class 95 while randomly looking at photos people post on facebook and this song came on. Don't Know Why by Norah Jones. its a very lovely jazz song but something else caught my attention.

she kept repeating this verse throughout the song,

"dont know why i didnt come"

and throughout the whole song i keep thinking of this girl who was like complaining about not being able to get an orgasm. and mind you, she kept repeating the verse ALOT in the whole song!

so yeah. as much as i love the song, i just cant look at the song the same way again. ever.

alijoe

hidden talents

2010-04-07T01:51:00.004+08:00

you know how like those beauty pageants will have like this talent segment in the whole contest. like lets say Miss France's talent would be to do ballet, Miss Egypt's talent would be to belly dance and Miss Thailand's talent is to shoot ping pong balls out of her vagina. well, i have a hidden talent to!

i can do accents!

i know i know, its not exactly as exciting as Miss Thailand's but its still a talent okay! ohh, i can burp on demand too!!

anyway,

so today as i was filing my nails while watching tv, (cause i really had nothing else to do and cutting them would just be too fast so i decided to file them but after filing the third nail, it felt like just too much effort so i went back to the nail clipper. i mean seriously, i dont get how you girls can file all your nails. its like the most mundane thing ever. and everytime i file i feel damn frustrated that they look uneven. seriously, its just too much effort. i know i'm free but i'm not THAT free. ANYWAY,) suddenly i heard somebody knock on the front door.

i opened it and there was this salesman and he asked me,

"can i speak to the house owner?"

and god knows how where what when and why, i suddenly replied,

"no sir, he not at home" IN A FUCKING FILIPINO ACCENT!!!!!

and then when i realised what i just did, i suddenly went "fuckfuckfuck!" in my mind. not verbally of course. in my mind i was already planning my whole story just in case he asked me another question. like i work at mcdonalds at lucky plaza and that i rented out a room in this flat.

luckily the only thing he did was passed me a brochure and he instructed me to pass it to the 'house owner'. and he actually said it slowly like i was mentally retarded or like i didnt understand english or smthing. stupid fuck!

after i closed the door i couldnt stop laughing la. he actually thought i was filipino la damnit!!

eh come to think of it, i donno whether to take that as a compliment or the opposite?

alijoe

deconstructing sanctuary

2010-04-03T17:58:00.003+08:00

amongst the gazillion bizarre facts about myself, one of them would be my concept of sanctuary. sanctuary is the term that i refer my house to, or to be exact, my room.

i have this weird little habit ever since i was young which is, i dont like having people over at my place. you know how when you're young, you'd invite your friends over to your house to play computer games, maybe do homework or just random chit chat. well, i never did any of that. i mean to begin with, growing up as the only child, i never really had any of those games where you can play as a group. most of my stuff were like a gameboy or like power ranger's megazord. once i begged my mum to buy me those 4-in-1 board games set, you know, those with snakes and ladders, checkers and whatnots. i got bored playing with it after 1 week, especially when i was playing each of the 4 players in the board game.

when you've grown up alone, especially with your parents working most of the time, you somewhat become used to and comfortable with being alone. so no matter how busy school was or how hectic life is, i know that i can always come back home to my sanctuary. my quiet little place where i can just relax. back when i was in secondary school, i would come home, read my Teenage or Lime magazine and listen to Say It With Music with Jean Danker every night on Perfect 10.

simply put, my sanctuary is a safe haven for me, a place away away from the 'noise' of reality. and i wanna keep it that way. it is my safe haven, not OUR safe haven. i feel like if i invited everybody over, it would no longer feel like my sanctuary. feels tainted. in simpler terms, its like a VIP room, if everybody can go into the VIP room , it wouldnt feel very VIP anymore would it.

so, dont hold your breathe waiting for an invite to my room, you might just die waiting.

oh, unless of course if i meet you at a club and i'm a little high and you're totally hot. then i'd be rolling out my 'Welcome' mat. ;)

alijoe

FML

2010-04-01T20:45:00.003+08:00

spent my whole day at Novena today with Barney. brought out my laptop today cause i intended to do a massive sent out of resumes. you know, just find a nice spot at Coffee Bean or smthing and just send out as many resumes as i can. my aim was to email out 20 resumes. not like it's gonna matter cause nobody's been replying any of my emails anyway.

we met at 1.30pm and now it 9pm.

total resume sent : 1

that sums up a maximum total of 1 resume sent this whole week.

i think i'll probably get a job by good friday, next year's good friday that is.

great job ali joe. great marvelous job indeed.

alijoe

you jump, i jump

2010-03-30T01:03:00.001+08:00

the most exercise i did this week.

alijoe

that weird kid

2010-03-27T15:43:00.002+08:00

i think alot of people have this deluded misconception i'm this ultra sociable guy. like this social butterfly that just flutters from people to people and hits it off with everybody like i've known them since primary three. but unfortunately, the opposite is the case.

quite a few of my friends have been like asking me,

"hey, you wanna join me and my friends for clubbing later?"

or

"is it okay if my friend joins us for dinner tonight?"

or like they just invite me for random social events.

i mean i do get that they've got good intentions and all but amongst strangers i just become this really introverted and shy guy. in simple terms, i become this social retard. now, dont roll your eyes at me when i say i'm shy. i am okay! i mean i dont come across as shy to my friends but to strangers i just clam up. i don't know why. maybe i guess i feel like they dont know me yet so they'll judge everything i say and do, so if i dont really do anything i'll be fine. or maybe i'm just afraid i make a terrible first impression and i dont wanna come across as a retard.

so all this fear of what others think of me create this armour around me that somewhat mentally protects me but at the same time shut me off. like a defense mechanism that protects strangers from seeing the real me and thus, judging me. in the end, i dont feel happy because i feel so restricted as i have to put on a front.

i dont know. maybe it's just me. i guess i'm weird like that. trust me, this is the least of my weirdness. there's all this other stuff about me that you'll find damn weird. like my concepts of sanctuary and my taste in fashion and music. its all just so different.

hopefully, one day i'll find a way to embrace it all. but for now, i'm stuck with being that weird kid.

alijoe

stuck in Funan

2010-03-25T14:44:00.003+08:00

its raining damn heavily right now and i'm stuck in Funan. i know right! funan of all places. ali joe and funan are just things that do not add up. the last time i came here, i went to every single shop asking if they sold a 'wire for my camera' which at the end of the day i found out was called a 'USB Cable' in geek speak. how was i suppose to know such terms right. like omg seriously! *flicks hair*

so to pass time, i'm taking random fotos on my webcam and indirectly am attracting stares from people sitting around me.

anyways, i know i havent been posting much photos recently on my blog so just in case you forgot how i look like. here's a picture which i just took on my webcam!

i know!! i know!! i look damn fat now right. what?! you think the life of a bumming party boy includes exercise and gym meh? the only exercise i get is when i shake my money maker on the podiums of Zouk.

anyway, i better finish my Happy Meal before it gets cold. toodles!

alijoe

doctor doctor

2010-03-21T00:03:00.004+08:00

i'm sick.

i hate being sick. i'm not somebody who gets sick easily but when i do get it, its major. sore throat, runny nose, coughing and the whole nine yards. my whole body just feels weak. all i do is just lie there on my bed, like those stranded whales on beaches, watching online shows on my laptop.

and you know how most people tend to lose weight when they are sick. i am the total opposite. the fact that i cant really taste my food makes me eat it even more so that i can somewhat feel satisfied. i drink tonnes of water which makes me bloat. and since all i do is just lie there on my bed, i dont exactly burn any calories.

being sick sucks!

white lies

2010-03-16T00:05:00.002+08:00

today as i just came home from a run, yah right, well, nobody's gonna believe that. ok fine. i went to the shop downstairs to buy 8days. i mean, its like an errand right? and the saying is you RUN an errand, not walk an errand. so TECHNICALLY i'm not making it up when i say i did run.

ok, lets start over.

so, today as i came back home from a run (ahem), my mother approached me with a letter. you see, my mother has this habit of opening up my letters. not that i get many. most of them are bills anyway. one day i told her, nicely that is, that they're my letters and i wanna open them myself. and she replied coolly, in a very calm manner, "well, of course". she took a few letters with my name on them and passed it to me and said, "oh, here are your bills. don't forget to pay them on time ar."

from then on i gave her that privileged of opening however many letters of mine that she wanted as long as i dont have to pay for any of them. HA!

anyway back to what happened,

so she came to me with this piece of letter in her hand and said,

"wah, you spend so much money at this place called ZOCK ar?? you got so many clothes already! what else you buy there??"

i didnt remember buying any clothes from ZOCK and i definitely dont recall seeing a shop by that name before. so i took the letter she was referring to and guess what i saw..

'Zouk'

i went to my room, opened my wardrobe and took out a jacket she's never seen before and went back to my mum and said..

"nice?"

i'm like so going to hell.

alijoe

hate you D

2010-03-12T02:04:00.004+08:00

i hate you.

i call - you dont pick up
i sms - you dont reply
i fb msg - you dont answer

i hate myself for being worried about somebody who's ignoring me.

alijoe

power of three

2010-03-10T09:10:00.003+08:00

omg ali joe!!

stop fucking procrastinating!! stop it already!!

vanquish these evil demons of sloth i say!

i just finished season 1 of Charmed. now to season 2.

alijoe

hangout at the hangout

2010-03-07T17:33:00.003+08:00

met up with slightly half of the tekong kids last night. wilson intro-ed us to this really cool place where you can play nintendo wii and board games. and they even have free flow of sweet popcorn, though i like mine salted. you know how too much of sweet popcorn makes you feel damn sick. especially like when you go catch a movie and you got a huge cup of coke which is like already sweet and then you have sugar sweet popcorn and in the end you start to feel like you're eating sugar. you get this really 'sick of it' feeling. that's why i like my popcorn mixed. get the best of both worlds. hahaha!! ;)

sometimes when i digress i get so damn long winded. never ask me to explain to you how a movie was, i get so long winded that you might just fall asleep.

anyway!!

great night playing super mario olympics and raving rabbids!! nintendo wii is like the shitz yo! everyone had fun!

alijoe

long story

2010-03-04T07:46:00.003+08:00

so my grandparents came to visit from malaysia yesterday. and me being a nice grandchild decided to go wait for them at Tanjong Pagar Railway Station as they were arriving by train. i know right, damn old school but then they live somewhat near the railway station and its like more convenient for them. anyway, i digress.

the last time i was at the railway station was like when i was really really young so i decided to google how to get there and stuff. i also found the railway station website to find out the the arrival timing of the train. it was suppose to reach at 4pm at tanjong pagar.

oh, how wonderful would it be when they see me there waiting for them at the train station. like such a lovely surprise. i know right. i've already somewhat planned the whole scene in my head. although extremely exagerated complete with a soundtrack and all but hey, its my head so it can be as exagerated as i want it to be. anyway, i digress.

take mrt to tanjong pagar followed by a short ride on bus number 80. that was the plan. and 2.45 pm was the time i was suppose to leave my place. but knowing me, punctuality was never my best asset. it was 3.30pm and i was still at home. cabbed there instead and reached at 3.45-ish.

i was wearing a plaid shirt with a cardigan over it and a nice pair of black pants. you know, a little demure for the grandparents but still keeping it boomz, for the lack of a better word.

changi airport have always been lauded as one of the best airports in the world. so how could our railway station be any lesser. oh how was i wrong, so so wrong.

imagine the most rundown bus interchange in singapore you can think of. now imagine it bigger but instead of busses, there are railway tracks. there was no aircon and mind you, i was dressed like a european schoolboy in autumn. even with the cardigan off i was still sweating like a fat boy during TAF club. fucking unglam. so after i waited for like 15minutes, which felt more like 2 hours in the sweltering heat, i approched the arrival section and waited.

and waited. it was 4.10pm. the train is late. so i decided to approach the ticket booth, now perpetually drenched in sweat like i just finished having the best sex of my life, and i said to him

'hi, wasnt the train suppose to arrive at 10mins ago?'

totally expressionless and monotonuously he replied, 'delayed'.

'i see, but for how long?'

'train come 445' he mumbled.

after a few seconds deciphering that he was trying to say the train was 45mins late. i was like going WTF.

30more minutes to endure.

you know the bad thing about the place is that there is really nothing to do. you know how at the airport you got all this lovely shops that you can browse at to pass the time or maybe a starbucks that you could grab a java chip frappucino at to while the time away. but nooooooooo, all they had was like a mama shop (convenience store) and some kopitiam-ish eatery. what on earth was i supposed to do, order teh tarik in that coffee shop and chill? you might as well just ask me to prop up one leg on the chair to get the whole experience.

so i bought a bottle of coke zero and decided to find some nice windy spot outside and start to organise the inbox in my handphone. the sun outside was scorching and even if there was wind, it was blowing hot air. it kinda feels like standing infront of a hair dryer. muthafucka.

so fast forward to 30mins later. it was 4.45pm and the train arrived punctually. punctual on the delayed timing that is. i waited and waited.

and waited.

"maybe they got a lot of luggage and walking really slowly cause you know how grandparents walk slow everywhere. its like a different timezone or smthing" i thought to myself.

until the last person came out of the train, still no grandparents. what the heck!

i asked a few of the train staff if there were anymore passengers inside. they said, this was their final stop for the time being and all the passengers have alighted. WHAT?!

so i decided to call home and complain to my mum bout this whole shit. and GUESS WHO PICKED UP THE PHONE???

my grandfather.

now did you know if you took the train you can alight at woodlands too? well i didnt. woodlands was apparently the stop where you get down to get your passport stamped and you could either get back on the train and go all the way to tanjong pagar and or just leave from the woodlands station itself.

well, now i know. so much for giving the grandparents a surprise huh.

alijoe

dear mel mel

2010-03-03T18:19:00.002+08:00

i love how you love to nag at me. :)

ilu2!

blowjob's on me!

alijoe

mr procrastinator

2010-03-01T14:45:00.003+08:00

i'm really annoyed with myself.

it's already march and i'm still jobless whereas most of my friends have somewhat already started on their career. and here i am still waking up at 1pm and bumming my life away. while everybody i meet tell me how much they envy this lifestyle i lead, i feel otherwise. but hey, the grass is always greener on the other side isn't it.

i'm not disillusioned, i know it's my fault that i'm still unemployed. no matter how many excuses i can come up with or those that my friends tell me to make me feel better, in the end it still comes down to me. there's a huge gap between knowing you're at fault and doing something about it and i definitely know where i stand.

procrastination is definitely one of my major issues. i'm like the 'last minute' guy. if i had something to do and let's say 2 months to do it, i'd only start 3 days before the deadline. you can look at it as a weakness or choose to see it in a positive light and say that i work better under pressure. and right now, there ain't enough pressure.

well, yes, i do get the neverending nagging from the parents, and the constant reminder of my depleting savings everytime i withdraw cash from the ATM. so what is it exactly that's making me procrastinate?

maybe, its fear. fear of the unknown or fear of change perhaps. i've never really worked a day in my life and this transition from being a student to a working adult is too drastic. i've got no point of reference. i don't know what to do.

it's like how kids always cry on the first day of school. it's not because they hate school or because they miss home but because of this fear of transition. being catapulted into a new environment makes me really nervous too.

enough.

it's time i do something about it.

maybe, after i catch this latest episode of Desperate Housewives.

alijoe

origins of poeps

2010-02-25T18:19:00.003+08:00

had dinner with POEPS in town some time back.

the name POEPS came cause we keep calling our group poly peeps since we were classmates back in singapore poly. so from poly peeps it kinda combined and became poeps!

if like you're wondering how come most of my friends here are gals, its cause my class had like 14 people and only 2 were guys. and that 2 included me in it! so like yeah, as classmates we naturally bonded and became great friends.

chilled out at starbucks after dinner. everytime i'm at starbucks i'm sure to order a tall non fat green tea frappe with no whipped cream. YUMS!

finally everyone's here!

alijoe

burn baby burn

2010-02-22T18:42:00.002+08:00

so today i made cheesy sausage spaghetti and i used those tomato pasta sauce that you can buy in a jar at the supermarket.
and i learnt an important lesson.

"never stir a pan of simmering pasta sauce without a tshirt on"

one blob of hot, scalding pasta sauce decided to splat out of the pan onto my chest which made me scream a ramble of expletives that when strung together made no proper sense to grammar nor meaning.

i now have this ridiculous red mark on my chest which looks like i got a nasty lovebite.
seriously omg!!

oh.
and yes, the pasta was yummy! :)

alijoe

8am

2010-02-22T08:24:00.003+08:00

i'm awake cause i was suddenly woken up by this immense need to shit.

and now i can't go back to sleep.

and to top it off, my block's gonna have a power shutdown at 9am for a few hours. what on earth am i suppose to do without electricity? i can't use the computer, i cant watch tv and my aircon is gonna be off. so damn rural la omg!

mmmm, maybe i should go for a run.

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yeah right.

alijoe

17 takes

2010-02-20T01:41:00.003+08:00

i'm hideous. fat and fucking hideous.

i had to do like 17 takes to get somewhat of a decent photograph for my resume photo. 17 takes for 1 photo damnit.

my hair looks overgrown and awful.
my skins looks shiny.
my eye bag are insane.
my face needs 3 rounds of lipo.

i ate yong tau foo for lunch, a bag of caramel pretzels for a post lunch snack, indian rojak for tea time since i was feeling a little peckish, black pepper steak with baked potato for dinner, 5 triangles of dark chocolate toblerone while watching project runway and seafood mee goreng for supper with a tall glass of bandung.

such a cow.

that's it. this weekend i'm gonna just drink water and suck on a slice of lemon!

fuckmylife.

alijoe

from bishan to angmokio

2010-02-19T01:01:00.003+08:00

met up with sheryl, jiafang and cecilia today for dinner at mcdonalds. as much as i love the prosperity burger, it leaves me with this bad onion-y smell in my mouth. twister fries was dope though especially when dipped in curry sauce. awesome!! but 7bucks for a meal at mcdonalds is kinda ex dont ya think? maybe cause i grew up in the era where extra value meals used to cost 5bucks.

we then had cheesecake at coffee bean to just chill out and catch up. i like the cheesecake here best. it's really rich and not exactly very sweet. but cheesecake is only great when shared. eating a whole slice alone makes me feel damn puke-ish. chatting with the girls made me realise that we've known each other for like 7 years. then sheryl brought up how when we first met, we were like teenagers and now, we're like in our mid twenties. mid twenties damnit. OMG!! i feel jurassic.

mcdonalds and cheesecake plus a lot of sitting down equals fat friends. fat but happy nonetheless. so to feel less guilty, sheryl suggested we walked all the way to ang mo kio from bishan. i mean, it seemed somewhat absurd at first but the weather was really great and walking would do us good. and so we did.

it was really really nice actually. cool windy weather in a quiet night injected with loud laughters from 4 retards over random stuff that crosses our minds. what better way to end a night right?

alijoe

silicon, saline, poison inject me

2010-02-17T18:49:00.004+08:00

"marilyn, judy, sylvia, tell'em how you feel girls!
work your blond benet ramsey, we'll haunt like liberace
find your freedom in the music, find your jesus, find your kubrick
you'll never fall apart, diana, you're still in our hearts
never let you fall apart, together we'll dance in the dark."

i cant fucking get this song out of my head!!

alijoe

year of the tiger

2010-02-15T23:41:00.002+08:00

how do i know its chinese new year?

95% of shops are closed. (thank god for mustafa!)
the people around ang mo kio looked dressed up as though they're in town.
my fridge is filled with mandarin oranges my father got from work/neighbours/random places.
at 1am as i head to the kitchen for a glass of water, i can hear people playing mahjong.
channel 5 is showing Shanghai Knight, the jackie chan movie with fann wong in it, yet again.

to the chinese people, a wonderful year of the tiger to you. and to the rest, happy holidays!

alijoe

checklist

2010-02-14T01:16:00.003+08:00

4 sappy romance dvds (the notebook, love actually, a walk to remember, 50 first dates) - check
box of tissues - check
2 tubs of Ben & Jerry's (cookie dough and chocolate fudge brownie) - check
67773777 on speed dial - check
big bag of ruffles crinkle cut potato chips in bbq flavor - check

venue: on my bed, under my quilt with the air con on full blast
dress code: tshirt and boxers
time: now till 12.01am february 15

all set.

i hope you have a great valentines day too.

alijoe

sugar high

2010-02-12T23:14:00.003+08:00

i just came back from oh-my-fucking-crowded chinatown and i got a little excited at the mix and match mochi stall. mochis are like this glutinous rice chewy candy with fillings in the centre such as red bean and green tea. ended up buying a huge bag of mochis and i just gobbled up 10 at one sitting.

the whole bag of mochis sitting next to my computer is like collectively chanting..

"eat me! eat me! eat me!"

just wait my darlings. slowly but surely.

i dont have to be psychic to predict that i'll be shitting mochis for the next 3 days.

alijoe

mint mcqueen

2010-02-12T00:55:00.003+08:00

so today i thought, finally i get to satisfy the damn mint ice cream craving i've been having for the past few day. but then i realised both the Ben & Jerrys at raffles city and suntec city outlets are no longer there anymore.

:(

and then i come home and find out that Alexander McQueen, one of my favourite designers, committed suicide.

:((

oh, what a day.

ps: i'm in no way comparing the departure of the great mcqueen to my unsatisfied craving for mint ice cream. it just so happens to be on the same day. i'm sure his passing is a great loss for the world of fashion. he will be missed but his design aesthetics and his creative ideas will continue to live on. rest in peace.

alijoe

licks

2010-02-10T21:26:00.002+08:00

i've been having this huge craving for mint ice cream from ben & jerrys that i've decided to make my blog color mint and my words chocolate.

YUM!

just a little note

2010-02-09T23:10:00.002+08:00

perfection.
we all crave for it. we all desire it. but what if, perfection comes with a price. a price that robs you of being you. would you still chose perfection? would it still mean as much?

perfection might not necessarily bring satisfaction. now i know.
now, those walls i've built, have just gotten even higher. thank you J. thank you oh so much.

***
this blog may no longer feature those long pictorial entries i normally do. i cannot be bothered to put in the effort into something that does not matter anymore. i'll still continue to do random updates i guess.

mmmmm..

alijoe

front

2010-02-04T13:28:00.003+08:00

it's starting to feel impersonal.

every time i blog i feel like i'm writing a press release instead of jotting down the random events of my life. i fuss over editing of photos, making the writing more interesting, and every small little details. it overwhelms me. it stifles me.

i need to stop pleasing others and start pleasing myself now.

ali joe

come let's ride on my capsicum!

2010-01-28T09:35:00.003+08:00

this is gonna be yet another post about birthdays. but this time its different.

cause it's mine.

:)

i'm not exactly someone who's big on birthdays. to me birthdays are like irritating deadlines. they're constant reminders about stuff you've yet to achieve, physical reminders that you're getting older and also reminders about having to complete my dreaded fitness test (IPPT) yet again. bleah.

furthermore, for like the past couple of years, my birthday always falls during the exam period. where got mood you tell me?? even if i wanted to meet my friends for a gathering for let's say 2hours, i wouldnt exactly be enjoying it. all i would be thinking throughout the whole gathering would be, "i could have finished 2 chapters of Global Marketing by now'.

so this year i decided to just cancel or push any form of celebrations till my exams are clearly out of the way. but hey, try celebrating your birthday 1 month later or so. it just doesnt feel festive anymore. so i told my friends, "no cake! no singing of happy birthday!", let's just spent a nice afternoon out together. and that's what we did.

met up with the girls at mac first for lunch.

then they managed to surprise me not by one but two presents!!

they got me this perfume i've been meaning to get, Calvin Klein Summer, and this lovely handmade frame with pictures and secret messages inside. :))

after lunch, we head over to one of my favourite places to hangout!

The National Museum!!!

did i mention i love the museum?

oh!! don't forget to get the brochure so you know what and where to check out!

there was an exhibition on paintings and photographs of old singapore. quite interesting to see how singapore was way before Ion or Zouk even existed.

you can also walk around inside the museum as they're many artworks at random places.

or you can just look at photos!

or if you like, you can take the lift to the top floor and enjoy the afternoon breeze. they've got a great view too!!

you can enjoy the view with your friends..

or go emo and enjoy it alone.

i prefer it with friends of course!

there are artworks on display around the compound of the museum too!

i love the whole colonial look of the building. so obviously, the museum is a great place to take photos too, especially when the background is such a majestic facade!!

nice right!!!

if you thought that was all, then you're wrong! there's one final artwork that we simply had to take photos with!

a shriveled up capsicum??! WTF?!

shriveled up or not doesnt matter! we'll still ride it anyway!!

on a sidenote: my heart goes out to witches who rides on broomsticks. my butt hurts after i rode on that damn capsicum!!

ANYWAYS,

yeh, i know it wasnt a typical birthday but you know what made my birthday great?

having equally retarded friends to spend the day with and take ridiculously crazy photos! trust me, i'd look back in like 10 yrs time and photos like these are the ones that is gonna put a huge-ass smile on my face.

so yeah, thanks for everything!! i love every single one of you!

see! i really mean it okay!!

HAHAHA!!

anyway,
to all my cute and sexy readers, i know recently my blogging frequency is becoming like a weekly affair. i've been sorta busy partying and hanging out with my friends. and of course editing all 55 photos one by one for this post is no easy task okay!! i'll try my best to do more shorter and frequent updates yeah?! look forward to a baking entry this weekend kay!! till then, the weekends are near, enjoy the rest of the week!!

ohh, instead of my usual sign off, i'll leave you with a picture that i know will brighten your day! or ruin it. MUAHAHAHA!!

;)

don't you just hate cravings!

2010-01-21T23:54:00.002+08:00

i get the weirdest cravings ever and they usually come at night.

for example, yesterday night when i was editing photos, i got like this sudden craving for steak. the other time i was craving pizza, popcorn and even salted caramel ice cream from shaw. weird right?! and all so random!

this time around i was craving fish head curry!!!

so i gathered some of my friends together and we head to where else but Little India for indian food!!

met up with huiming and angela first while we waited for kath and zwei to arrive.

we went to this place at the back of Mustafa called Sakunthala's Food Palace.

we had fish head curry, butter and garlic naans (something like flat bread) and chicken tandoori.

well, the food there isnt exactly fantastic. the fish head curry wasnt anything special and the tandoori chicken was cold, tasteless and medium rare. the only salvation was the yummy naans. apart from that everything else was mediocre. price wise, its not exactly what i would consider reasonable. the fish head curry alone cost $15 and that was a small. i've tasted better indian food at hawker centres so i suggest you save your money and buy a nice dress at Simply Wardrobe instead. you can click on the banner at my sidebar to go to their website!

walked around Mustafa after dinner and decided to play dress up!! dont you just love shopping at Mustafa! Mustafa is AWESOME!!

took the train to town to meet maddie for drinks!

randomness of the night. i'm just too lazy to put a caption next to every single picture. HA!!

group photo time!

maddie had to ruin this photo so lets all do funny faces for our next foto!

one more time!

kath has the same expression though. KATH!! COME ON, FUNNY FACE LEI!!

awesome night! period.

to all my cute and sexy readers, i hope you had a great week so far. and if you didnt, go ahead and buy yourselves a yummy venti java chip frappucino from starbucks or whatever yummy treats you like. you deserve it!!

xoxo
ALI JOE